Does Peter disparage Paul?

Someone writes: Does Peter disparage Paul when he says (2 Pet 3:16) that Paul writes things that are "hard to be understood?" This has troubled many people. On the one hand, we know that Paul was "a chosen vessel" of the Lord (Acts 9:15) called from his mother's womb to reveal Christ to the world (Gal 1:15, 16), one in whom God's strength was "made perfect" (2 Cor 12:9). On the other hand we have this statement from Peter that seems on the surface to say that Paul was incompetent as a writer, muddling up the gospel so people couldn't understand it clearly. An inspired apostle of Christ must have two qualifications: he must

(a) understand the gospel clearly, and (b) be able to articulate and communicate it clearly. Did Peter say that his "beloved brother Paul" failed to pass the grade on # (b)? If so, Paul's credentials would be called in question. Someone says, "But that's what the English Bible says!"

Well, take a look at the one Greek word DUSNOETOS from which the entire clause is translated as "hard to be understood." The prefix DUS means "mis-" or "un-," the same as with those English prefixes we use everyday. The Greek word NOEO means "perceived" or "understood." Put the two together and we have the clear, obvious meaning of DUSNOETOS as "unperceived" or "misunderstood." Peter says that "unlearned and unstable" people "wrest" (twist out of shape) the clear words that Paul wrote and so "misunderstood" or "misperceived" the precious truths he wrote. In so doing, he says, they brought about "their own destruction." We are in grave danger of doing the same lethal wrong in "wresting" or "misperceiving" truths that others may be "chosen" of the Lord to bring to us. When "destruction" is at the end of this road, it's no light matter to set our foot in it, even a little. Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15

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